Good Guy with a Gun #10: Walton County, FL
Original incident: November 4, 2023
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Sometimes news stories fail to include details we really wish they would.
For example, when news outlets in Florida reported that Walton County deputies tried to pull over Anthony McMillian, 37, because they suspected he “was driving a stolen red Dodge Ram that he attempted to paint black,” we can’t help but wish they had included pictures of the “attempted” paint job.
There’s even dashcam video of the arrest — but that doesn’t show the painted truck, either, because McMillian had abandoned the truck and fled from the deputies on foot, sparking a brief manhunt.
Similarly, when we hear that deputies apprehended him on Campbells Rest Road half an hour later because “three residents were holding him at gunpoint,” we want details on how and why the Good Guys detained him.
Did they know he was wanted?
Was he acting suspiciously?
Did he try to paint their vehicle?
Dashcam video shows McMillan on the ground and the GGWAGS covering him.
Click the image to be taken to the tweet.
The Sheriff’s office wants you to know that they got the bad buy, and that they have a Commitment To Excellence.
We don’t know any of those things. But we do know that McMillian was taken to Walton County jail for crimes related to the poorly-painted stolen Dodge Ram and for questioning about several other thefts, and we know that Good Guys with Guns played a key role in ending the manhunt.
Sources
Walton County Sheriff’s Office: @WCSOFL on Twitter.
(Yeah, I know it’s officially X now, but the “embed” feature still says “Twitter,” and until Elon gets around to allowing me to embed tweets directly into Substack, I don’t see why I should change.)
These are all essentially the same. The news outlets basically summarized the WCSO’s tweet. WEAR at least embedded the tweet so we could get the information straight from the police officers’ mouths.
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